Upgrading the Curriculum for 21st Century Learners

Post-Conference: Developing Your Plan: Making It Work in Your School

Two Day Conference:
Upgrading the Curriculum for 21st Century Learners

Join educators in the New Jersey Area who are committed to providing their students with a challenging thoughtful curriculum for the future.

This dynamic interactive two-day conference features internationally recognized leader in the field of curriculum reform, Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and nationally recognized members of the Curriculum Designers' Faculty - Dr. Ann Johnson, Dr. Marie Alcock, and Bill Sheskey, who all have extensive experience working with educators helping them design curriculum for the 21st Century.

Schools as Launching Pads to the Future.

Dr. Jacobs, president of Curriculum Designers, Inc., suggests that whatever we choose to include in our curricula will provide the preparation for learners for 5 years, 10 years, and well into their future. Heidi will share ideas and strategies which are featured in her upcoming ASCD book, Curriculum 21: New Essential Curriculum for 21st Century Learners to show participants how they can "upgrade" dated curriculum content, skills, and assessments with timely and engaging contemporary replacements.

Areas that will be featured in this conference include:

• the role of standards and curriculum across the country given that many are startlingly dated
• current perspectives on "globalizing" state standards
• the extremely formidable role of testing as a shaper of curriculum
• the latest work on Digital Portfolios, electronic learning, and distance learning
• creative out-of-the-box school designs for 21st Century Learners: new scheduling options, student grouping patterns, extended school year,
• technology tools to merge curriculum maps with assessment data and personnel configurations will be addressed.

One Day Post-Conference:
Developing Your Plan: Making It Work in Your School

Developing Your Plan: Making It Work in Your School is designed as a lab workshop where participants are encouraged to attend in teams to work on a plan to implement Curriculum 21 and Mapping in their school or district. During this session, participants will have an opportunity to help other participants integrate ideas that were shared in the previous two-day workshop to develop a high quality implementation plan for their school, district, or organization.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs, President of Curriculum Designers, has served as an education consultant to schools and organizations nationally and internationally. Her work in Mapping, Active Literacy, and Curriculum 21 provides the structural frameworks for schools working to update their curriculum for 21st Century Learning.	Ann Johnson works with schools internationally in her role as an educational consultant and Director of PD for Curriculum Designers, Inc. on implementing curriculum and assessment reform, developing high quality leadership teams, and developing implementation plans.	Marie Alcock is an international educational consultant and President of Learning Systems Assoc. who has taught at all grade levels and served as a curriculum coordinator in New Jersey.	Bill Sheskey is a lifetime educator who facilitates engaging workshops where participants leave the workshop with multimedia tools to immediately engage their students in 21st learning opportunities.